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  1. look at a turkish face, look at their dark, evil eyes as a result of years of denial and lies.

  2. A HEAD’S UP:
    The Turks are bringing out this revisionist claptrap film well before THE PROMISE comes out in late April. When THE PROMISE comes out, be sure to write letters to film critics all over the USA that it is a miracle that THE PROMISE found a distributor. Enlighten these same critics that in the 1930s, the Turkish ambassador to the United States put unbelievable pressure on not only our government but on Hollywood not to develop the film: THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH. Hollywood caved to the pressure. Ataturk absolutely did not want his own people to see a film about the Armenian Genocide. Our own Armenians in Istanbul even burned copies in a huge pyre of the book to show the government of Ataturk that they were faithful citizens thus denying their own history. NEVER AGAIN!
    ELLEN SARKISIAN CHESNUT

  3. I have written a full length novel ‘Journey of Faith’ to a first draft. It tells the genocide from an Armenian woman’s point of view. In part based on the memories of my Armenian wife’s grandmother and in part inspired by the Australian-Armenian connection from the latter stages of WW1, my novel (currently to a first draft) will speak loudly on the theme of Faith: the power to keep going and the power to believe that justice must happen if we remember and demand it.

  4. Yes, indeed the journey of faith in truth! When truth emerges sooner than later it will lay bare the forgery, deceitfulness and outright lying of the diaspora Armenians.

  5. I wrote a script on the fall of Constantinople. I wonder if I can find distributors once the film is finalized. BTW the new term for our people who suffered at the hands of the turk is now Ottoman Armenians and Ottoman Greeks. We must not let anyone change historical facts.

  6. Congratulations on your statement. I would like to point the Armenian-American Youth Organization to another problematic feature film: Russell Crowe’s “The Water Diviner” (2014) had a less obvious, but similar historical bias and agenda, because it didn’t mention the Armenian Genocide at all, while it focused on the deaths of a few thousand Australian soldiers as the major event. Please read Andrew O’Hehir’s article about the film on Salon.com. It was a Turkish co-production and used Turkish locations, which would have been impossible without approval from the Turkish government. They will read your screenplay first, then they decide if you get a shooting permit etc., therefore they have some negotiation power. Through these pressures and incentives like tax breaks etc the Turkish state has significant influence on international film productions and the representation of Turkish history. The political nature of these so-called ‘artistic decisions’ is usually covered up, therefore you need to make people aware of these propaganda films.
    Thank you.

  7. I saw the film on TV…it was a botched up patch work. So unreal, so deformed history, so stupid…it was meant to counter effect “The Promise” film. The main message was that there was no genocide and nothing happened to the Armenian Community in Turkey. Then how come present Turkey’s Armenian communities from East to West have vanished. How come the churches are bombed, the stones are used for other purposes, or turned into barns????

  8. The guys making the movie were unhappy when the Turkish owners edited it post-production. The director refused to do promotion for it, but was contractually obliged to keep his name in.

    When looking for a directing job, buyer beware :-\

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